OT as hell: ready meals

Ooh, ta for that, very interesting.

Me too. When I cook for the kids at work, I always leave the skins on
(mainly to save time but also for healthy reasons) even in mash or
soup - they never notice - and I often do spicy wedges and potato
salad too.

It's a new variety. The only place I've seen them is at Sainsbury's.

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Ah, OK, but if the lumps are small, I still reckon ten minutes is
enough.

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I guess *something* has to. I didn't think it was original to us, hadn't
realised it was that old.

Ali

 

You think I'm clicking on that link at work?!

<fx:notes poster isn't Cane>

Ah, ok.

 

No, but the luxury of saying "I'm only buying locall produced food in
season" is only afforded because the other 80% (or whatever) of your
food is not subject to the same restriction. If you genuinely buy no
tinned, frozen, pasteurised or otherwise artifically
produced/packaged/preserved food then this would not be true. But you
don't, I'm sure.

And one's definition of 'barren diet', of course. But can you imagine
cooking without tinned tomatoes? And how about no green veg throughout
the winter?

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I can imagine cooking without tomatoes at all.

And how about no green veg throughout

Purple sprouting broccoli (got green bits as well)
Savoy Cabbage ?

 

Sprouts, kale, perpetual spinach, assorted other brassicas and winter
saladings as an example. Plus any number of root crops. None of which need
even a freezer to preserve.

And if we're being pedantic about seasonality, I don't see an issue with
including preserved stuff, such as bottled or tinned. (I don't have a
problem with eating some out of season stuff, it's the over emphasis on it
that I think is a shame.)

Ali

 

Hot enough to set the smoke alarms off[1] when we open the oven door.

Phil.

[1] Not that that's a huge trick. The one in the hall outside the
kitchen is ridiculously sensitive.

 

In a slightly different market, a former mate once worked in a chip
shop in a fishing port. Hearing visitors comment on how you couldn't
beat fresh fish made the staff smile, because the fish actually came
from a distribution warehouse inland...

 

It a plant innit. Stuff that you feed to what you later eat..

Phil

 

<Falls over laughing>

Phil

 

That should do it. Do you also allow the batter to rest for an hour or two?

Ah yes. The dinner gong.

Ali

 

Oh right. That's not how your earlier comments read. I can't really
argue with that, except from a purely personal viewpoint which is that
I don't really like many vegetables but need to eat them, so
year-round availability of those that I _do_ like helps me eat a much
more healthy diet.

Which is why we now shop at a Super-U not far away, which as well as
parsnips[1] also stocks such exotic delights as mange-tout, obviously
not local and not subject to seasonal availability.

[1] Which are viewed as cattle food by most p=folks over here,
apparently. And therefore not local either, I suspect.
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Took you long enough.

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You're that Norn Irn bloke off of Gardener's Question Time, aren't you.

Ali

 

Animals are god's way of turning vegetables into food.

 

Yup - and if I use the same technique for making toad-in-the-hole the
batter turns out lovely and light.

I wonder if it's the fat content of the sausages helping?

Or in our case the "oh - somethings cooking in the oven" gong.

Phil

 

If God had not wanted us to eat animals, why did he make them out of
meat?

 

Ah, might be. You're using fat or lard not oil for the puds, yes? Maybe more
of same?

Heh. Me too.

Ali

 

You're that Norn Irn bloke off of Gardener's Question Time, aren't you.[/QUOTE]

I'll have you know that I elucidate the Queens English in the proper
Home Counties style.

And I don't do gardening.

Phil